Device for blowing bubbles.



P. D. HORTON.v

DEV-ICE FOR BLOWING BUBBLES.

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PETER D. HORTON, OF NEWARK, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF TWO-TIIIRDS TO JOHN M. ESPENSOHEID, OF NEWARK, NEW YORK, AND JOHN COOPER,

OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 693,395, dated February 18, 1902. I Application filed September 20, 19 01. $erial No. 75,955. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, PETER D. HORTON, of Newark, in the county of Wayne and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Blowing Bubbles, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

My invention is a bubble-blower or an improved device for blowing bubbles, as out of water charged with soap, and for conveniently detaching the bubbles from the blower, the same being hereinafter fully described, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Refer-ring to the drawings,,Figure 1 is a side elevation of the device as in use. Fig. 2 is a plan seen as indicated by arrow 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa central longitudinal section :0 taken on the dotted line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section takenonthe broken dotted line 4 4 in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a side ele- Vation, partlyin central longitudinal section,

showing a slight modification in the construction of the device. Fig. 6 is an end view of the device seen as indicated by arrow 6'in Fig. 2. Fig. 7 is anend view seen as indicated by arrow 7 in Fig. 5. Fig. 8 is an end view seen as indicated by arrow 8 in Fig. 1.

Fig. 9, partly broken away, is a View of the under side of the device seen as indicated by arrow 9 in Fig. 1f

e e A in the drawings is the body of the bubble-blower, it being in a single piece, which may be made of any suitable material, as wood, and rectangular in cross-section. At

one end the bodyis formed with an extended part a, constituting the mouthpiece of the device, and at the other end with an extended.

4o horizontal ledge or part b, constituting a rest or floor for the bubble cl while being formed. The upper side of the body is formed with rectangular indentations or notches g h, Figs. 1 and 3, having vertical end faces or ends 6 c, as shown, there being also a single notch or recess f formed in the lower side of the body under the mouthpiece a.

The body A is further formed near one end with a longitudinal cavity or bubble-chamber 7c, preferably cylindrical in form, from the open end or mouth 0 ofwhich the ledge 1) extends longitudinally outward, as shown I in Figs. 3, 6, and 7, the upper or operating face of the ledge being in line with the bottom of. the chamber.

aids in supplying the liquid to the chamber 70. Also when made farther back, near the inner end of the chamber k, as appears by dotted circles in Figs. 4 and 9, this opening serves to produce bubbles of greater diameter. This occurs on account of the air induced upward through the opening into the chamber 70 mingling with that blown through the passage Z, thus increasing the volume of air entering the bubble. The bubble is formed by the pressure of the'breath blown through the opening Z against a film of the liquid crossing or covering the mouth 0.

The bubble when formed is detached from the bodyofthe blower bytheforce of thebreath through the passage m, which, impinging against the bubble, forcesit free from its position on the floor 1). While the bubble is'yet small and forming the breath through the passage mstrikes it near the top and obliquelyand glances away without disturbing it, the bubble being unseated only when it assumes a large size, and the current of breath through the passage m strikes it centrally or more directly in the middle.

I'sometimes find it desirable to form the body A with a part p, Figs. 5 and 7, extending from the end 0 below the passage m, as shown. This extended part acts as a de- 5 flector for thecurrent of air flowing through the passage 'm and tends to deflect it slightly upward, as indicated by arrow r, and so al- Two parallel longitu- 5 5v 'dinal'ducts or air-passages Z m are formed in lows the bubble to assume a larger diameter before it is forced off or detached from the blower.

As appears in the drawings, the body A of the device is in the form of a notched or indented right parallelepipedon, every crosssection throughout its length being rectangular, and as the two vertical or broad sides of the body are parallel all the rectangles formed by vertical transverse sections have a common horizontal dimension or width.

The two broad vertical sides of the body are sometimes used upon which to place advertising matter.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is"

1. A device for blowing bubbles, consisting of a single piece having a longitudinal ehambernearoneend,andtwoindependentair passages or ducts through the body, oneleading into said chamber the outlet of the other duct being in line with the blown bubble for the purpose of detaching the same, substantially as shown and described.

2. A device of the kind described consisting of a body in one piece, having a bubblechamber near one end, a detaching-duct leading from one end and an air-duct parallel therewith leading into the chamber from the other end of the body, thelatter being formed to have cross-sections of different sizes all rectangular, substantially as set forth and shown.

3. A device of the-kind described consisting of a body formed with a bubble-chamber, and parallel air-ducts one leading into the chamber and the other terminating in line with the blown bubble, the body having the form of a notched or indented parallelepipedon, substantially as shown and described.

4-. A device for blowing bubbles, consisting of a bodyformed witha bubble-chamber,

and air-ducts parallel for their entire length, one leading into the chamber and the other terminating in line with the blown bubble, the body being formed to have cross-sections of different areas, all rectangular and having a common horizontal dimension or wid th, substantially as shown and set forth.

5. A bubble-blower having a body formed with a bubble-chamber near one end, and a floor or ledge extending lengthwise of the body beyond said chamber, andan air-duet leading from the opposite end of the body into the bubble-chamber and an independent parallel duct disposed above said ledge, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

6. A device for blowing bubbles consisting of a body havingalongitudinal bubble-chamber, and a fiooror ledge extending beyond the mouth of said chamber with the plane of its upper or operating surface in line with the bottom line of the chamber, and an air-duct leading from the opposite end of the body into the chamber, substantially as shown and described.

7. A device of the kind described, consisting of a body having a bubble-chamber near one end, and air-ducts leading from the opposite end of the body one into the bubblechamber, and the other opening out above the bubble-chamber and parallel therewith and with the other duct, and a deflector-integral with the body above the bubble-chamher for the current of airabove said chamber, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, this 14th dayof September, 1901, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PETER D. HORTON.

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